Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20090094041
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Prior Art Detail
Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | Current web services standards enabling publishing service descriptions and finding services on a match based on criteria such as method signatures or service category. However, current approaches provide no basis for selecting a good service or for comparing ratings of services We describe a conceptual model for reputation which reputation information can be organized and shared and service selection can be facilitated and automated. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Print Publication |
| Publication Title * | Conceptual Model of Web Service Reputation |
| Author | E. Michael Maximilien, Munindar P. Singh |
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| Medium | Journal article |
| Publication Date * | 2002 |
| URL | http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/SemNSF/... |
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Excerpt
Excerpt We propose the addition of a Web Service Agent Proxy (WSAP) to access each service. For our purposes, an agent is a software component that automates some tasks for its principal. Agents communicate with other agents, accept requests from their users, and are typically autonomous. A WSAP is an agent that acts as a proxy for clients of Web services. That is, a client would have a WSAP for each service that it needs. WSAPs are knowledgeable about the various service standards. All activities of the client pertaining to the given service - including requests and responses, and communications with UDDI registries and bindings -- occur via the WSAP for that service. In this manner, when the client needs to bind to a service, it instantiates a WSAP, which consults outside registries as well as reputation and endorsement agencies, heps find appropriate providers, records any feedback from the client, learns from the experience, potentially shares its knowledge with the external agencies and other WSAPs, and hopefully helps find better providers the next time around. |
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Relevance
"Service" in the referenced prior art contemplates that services will be provided via software, and it is also contemplated that the end user's decision-making will include an assessment, based in part on reputation information, of the contractual terms and conditions linked to that service. (See, for instance, travel agent example in Section 3.)
"Service" in the referenced prior art contemplates that services will be provided via software, and it is also contemplated that the end user's decision-making will include an assessment, based in part on reputation information, of the contractual terms and conditions linked to that service. (See, for instance, travel agent example in Section 3.)
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